Jingle Bell Rocks! is a new documentary about intense record-collector nerds who scour the earth for interesting Christmas novelty records, and it's also a movie about the people who have tried to make those novelty records. Mitchell Kezin directed the movie, and it's got appearances from people like Run-DMC's Rev. Run, the Flaming Lips'… More »

Ghostbusters celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and Legacy Recordings has decided to commemorate the occasion by putting out the Ghostbusters Stay Puft Super Deluxe Edition. It's a 12-inch that contains the theme song by Ray Parker Jr. and Run-D.M.C.'s version that was made for the sequel. (Fun side note: Lindsey Buckingham wa… More »

Christmastime has given us some classic Saturday Night Live episodes over the years. This past weekend's show, hosted by ex-cast member and future Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, was not one of the them. Joining Fallon was the dangerously overexposed triple threat Justin Timberlake. It was the highest ratedSNL in years, though,… More »

Starting sometime today, and growing tomorrow, some 20,000 people will converge on Austin, TX for Fun Fun Fun Fest. If you're not one of them, you have every right and reason to be very, very jealous. Now in its seventh year, FFF is presenting one of the strongest bills in recent memory: Over three day… More »

Philadelphia's inaugural Made In America festival took place over the weekend, touting an eclectic Jay-Z-curated lineup of Pearl Jam, Skrillex, a reunited Run-D.M.C., D'Angelo, Dirty Projectors, Santigold, Drake and many more. While there was potential for disaster -- a Philly-native friend told me that this was the first ticketed event Philly has ever held… More »

According to the Associated Press, Joseph Simmons AKA Rev Run and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels will reunite for Austin's Fun Fun Fun Festival, which goes down 11/2-11/4. The band retired as a group in 2002 after Jam Master Jay was killed, so it's set to be their first show in ten years. Some festival… More »

And so ended the Pool Parties, at least in the form in which we know them. That is to say, they ended with fun and sunny sets from the previously confirmed Florida booty rap party starter Dominique Young Unique and Barcelona's blissed out dance rock blog-beaters Delorean, and a series of special guests that ra… More »

The Rock Hall shifted gears this year for its induction ceremony, trading the swanky/stuffy hotel cocktail soiree of years past for a return to Cleveland, home to the hall since 1995. It was the second time the city hosted the event, and rather than an audience exclusively comprising ungracefully aging industry suits, this weekend's festivitie… More »

Adidas and Armani all around: Seminal rap and influential metal outfits Run D.M.C. and Metallica have officially achieved their music-history artifact status, confirmed as inductees in the Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame's Class of 2009. But the R&R HOF's idea of fun is, once again, taking a pass on the Stooges. It'… More »

The 2009 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame nominees were announced this morning, and again prog get no respect. However, cheers to The Stooges for finally getting the nod (Iggy Pop's Madonna tribute put him in the Hall's good graces) along with Metallica, who we haven't heard from in a while. Also nominated: Jeff… More »

Every week, we dig in the archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. And then, Jon McMillan breaks 'em down for you. This week: we stay in the holiday spirit with the best hip-hop holiday video of all time. More »

Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. A recent weekend in Long Island turned up this now-legal issue of Rolling Stone that dates back to May 22nd, 1986, the spring of Chernobyl, Geraldo opening… More »

Knack members Doug Fieger and Berton Averre filed a copyright infringement suit against Run DMC on Friday. Apparently, the two just discovered that twenty-year-old rap hit "It's Tricky" samples "My Sharona." Rolling Stone has details. Is there no statute of limitations on this shit? More »

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Last spring the world got a brief preview of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, the secret Wu-Tang Clan album that will be released in a limited edition of 1 and auctioned off to the highest bidder. That might be all most of us hear from the project for the rest of our… More »

Kanye West debuted his much-leaked single "All Day" at the Brit Awards last week, and now a studio version has emerged. The So Help Me God song's bouncy, bass-heavy beat also features verses from Allan Kingdom and Theophilus London, and a massive "Monster"/"Black Skinhead"-style riff slices through the track from time… More »

Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" was one of the defining jams of summer 2012, but it was the sort of song that screamed "one-hit wonder" from the rooftops. Well, that's not going to be the case. Today, Jepsen comes back with a new single called "I Really Like You," and it is absolute top-shelf… More »

Mumford & Sons have announced the details of their third full-length, Wilder Mind, and it's bound to sound pretty different from the rest of the folk-rock group's output. As As they told Rolling Stone, the band went completely electric for the new album, ditching the folkier elements that catapulted them to fame. "We felt… More »

Kanye West has announced the title of his new album. It will be called So Help Me God, and that's presumably the cover art up above. It appears to be a 13th Century monastic symbol for the Virgin Mary according to this conspiracy theory website Google Image Search turned up. We were just More »